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    Jew­ish His­to­ry and Jew­ish Memory

    Ear­li­er this week, Stephanie Feld­man wrote about her favorite Wan­der­ing Jews. Her debut nov­el, The Angel of Loss­es, will be pub­lished by Ecco on July 29th. She has been…
    Stephanie Feld­man
    July 17, 2014
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    Shtetl: A Ver­nac­u­lar Intel­lec­tu­al History
    Jeffrey Shandler
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    The Gold­en Age Shtetl: A New His­to­ry of Jew­ish Life in East Europe
    Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern
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    In the Shad­ow of the Shtetl: Small-Town Jew­ish Life in Sovi­et Ukraine
    Jeffrey Veidlinger
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    A Fatal Bal­anc­ing Act: The Dilem­ma of the Reich Asso­ci­a­tion of Jews in Ger­many, 1939 – 1945
    Beate Meyer
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    My Favorite Wan­der­ing Jews

    Stephanie Feld­man is a grad­u­ate of Barnard Col­lege. Her debut nov­el, The Angel of Loss­es, will be pub­lished by Ecco on July 29th. She will be blog­ging here all week…
    Stephanie Feld­man
    July 15, 2014
    Essay

    Some­times His­to­ry Throws Me A Bone

    This week, Rober­ta Rich, the author of The Mid­wife of Venice and a new book, The Harem Mid­wife, blogs for The Post­script on the the amaz­ing (true!) sto­ries that…
    Rober­ta Rich
    July 15, 2014
    Essay

    On Trail­ing the Life of Hele­na Rubinstein

    Ear­li­er this week, Michèle Fitous­si wrote about her fas­ci­na­tion with Hele­na Rubin­stein and her deci­sion to write the biog­ra­phy Hele­na Rubin­stein: The Woman Who…
    Michèle Fitous­si
    July 15, 2014
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    The Har­ness Mak­er’s Dream: Nathan Kalli­son and the Rise of South Texas
    Nick Kotz
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    GI Jews: How World War II Changed a Generation
    Deb­o­rah Dash Moore
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    Tri­an­gle: The Fire That Changed America
    David von Drehle
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    Ilan Sta­vans: Eight Conversations
    Neal Sokol
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    Res­cued from the Third Reich: How One of Hitler’s Sol­diers Saved the Life of the Lubav­itch­er Rebbe
    Bryan Mark Rigg
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    The Book of Job: A Biography
    Mark Larrimore
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    In our Hearts we were Giants: The Remark­able Sto­ry of the Lil­liput Troupe‑A Dwarf Fam­i­ly’s Sur­vival of the Holocaust
    Yehuda Koren & Ellat Negev
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    Anti­semitism and the Amer­i­can Far Left
    Stephen H. Norwood
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